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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1988

"NO OTHER MEASURES ARE

THEREFORE

то REQUIRED

PROTECT

THESE

OPERATORS," MR WONG SAID.

ANGLE, THE

LABOUR

HAD

DEPARTMENT DISPLAY UNITS"

HOWEVER, FROM AN ADVISORY PUBLISHED A FREE BOOKLET ON "HEALTH ASPECTS OF VISUAL WHICH CONTAINED DETAILED INFORMATION AND ADVICE ON THE SUBJECT.

HONG HOURS ON

MR WONG SAID NO SYSTEMATIC STUDY HAD BEEN UNDERTAKEN IN KONG ON THE EFFECT OF OPERATING COMPUTER TERMINALS FOR LONG THE HEALTH OF OPERATORS.

OF VISUAL PAINS

EXTENSIVE OVERSEAS STUDIES HAD FOUND THAT OPERATORS DISPLAY UNITS SOMETIMES COMPLAINED OF EYE STRAIN, HEADACHES AND IN THE NECK, SHOULDER AND BACK.

CAUSED BY ENVIRONMENT,

EYE

AND STRAIN

OF LIGHTING

THE ON

ARE

HEADACHES

THE WORKING SCREEN, POOR

STUDIES, "ACCORDING TO THESE

AS INADEQUATE SUCH FACTORS

THR SMALL SIZE OF CHARACTERS ADJUSTMENT OF BRIGHTNESS AND CONTRAST, AND FLICKERING CAUSED BY THE POOR QUALITY OF THE VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT," HE SAID.

ON THE SCREEN

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"NECK, SHOULDER AND INCORRECT POSTURE, POOR CHAIR STATION.

BACK

PAINS

DESIGN

ARE LARGELY OR POOR LAYOUT

THE

OF

RESULT

THE

OF

WORK

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CONDUCTED SAID, "THE STUDIES MR WONG 'AS REGARDS RADIATION,

BY A VISUAL DISPLAY OVERSEAS HAVE SHOWN THAT THE RADIATION EMITTED UNIT IS VERY LOW, SO LOW THAT IT POSES NO HARMFUL EFFECT TO HEALTH.'

TARGET DATES FOR INCINERATORS TO CLOSE DOWN

THE KENNEDY TOWN INCINERATOR SHOULD

BE CLOSED DOWN IN

1992

OF WHILE THE LAI CHI KOK PLANT WILL BE SHUT DOWN IN PHASES-AT THE END

NEW WHEN

FACILITIES ARE AVAILABLE TO THIS YEAR AND IN LATE 1990, DISPOSE OF WASTE WHICH IS NOW BEING BURNED THERE.

IN

AND WELFARE, THE THIS WAS STATED BY THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH HON JOHN CHAMBERS, IN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON CHUNG PUI-LAM THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

URBAN ΤΟ

AREAS,

FROM

THREE LARGE

WHICH LANDFILL

IN

BR REFUSE TRANSFER WASTE WOULD BE SITES

THE NEW

MR CHAMBERS SAID THE NEW FACILITIES WOULD

LOCATED IN IN BULK

STATIONS

TRANSPORTED TERRITORIES.

"DETAILED DESIGN FOR THE FIRST OF

THE LANDFILLS,

LOCATED

AT

NIM WAN IN THE WESTERN NEW TERRITORIES HAS JUST BEGUN," HE SAID,

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